Week 11 Notes
Created Tuesday 21 July 2020
Kyllo vs US - Marijuana Growing operation / Heat Lamps
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
Katz vs US - Wiretap
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Week 1 Class Notes
LIS-5411 - Information Policy
Welcome to the course! If you can read this, you're in the right place.
Be sure NOT to leave the classroom until the professor has indicated it is okay to do so.
The Lambchop Machine
Information's role in "Capitalism," either as input or output.
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Week 2 Class Notes
Created Tuesday 19 May 2020
From economics to law -
Specialized Language - 3 types:
- Denotative, Justified, Specific
- Connotative
- "Transcendental Nonsense"
— next up, "Intellectual" "Property"
Week 3 Notes
Created Tuesday 26 May 2020
Property
- from singular (MINE)
- to multiple (STICKS)
..and back? — EXCLUSION!
Three types
- Personal Property
- Real Property
- Intellectual Property — (is *not* practically finite)
IP Clause/Copyright Clause
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Basic types of IP
Trade Secret*
Trademark*
Patent
Copyright
Week 4 Notes
TRADE SECRET
- must be a secret
- economic advantage
- potentially perpetual
- corporate right of privacy
TRADEMARK
- Different from the others in that it's not (theoretically) inherently valuable, but only symbolically
- “Source of Origin”
- Potentially perpetual
- Can be a very wide range of “things...”
- you don't want it to be "Representative"
- Going from "confusion" to "dilution"
- SCOPE
Mostly not too controversial except
● Unfairly scoped and/or wielded (e.g. Sam Bucks Coffee?)
● Weirdly Deceptive? (Famous Amos Cookies?)
● And wait – what is FSU doing?
PATENT
Must be:
● Novel (new)
● Non-obvious
● Useful
prototype?
Not patentable theoretically - Naturally occuring things like – plants and algorithms.
BUT
- man made living things
- not the "thing" but the process....
Reverse Engineering?
Patent don't care.
This is why a lot of people oppose them CATEGORICALLY.
First to invent
First to FILE
Software Patents / Patent Trolls
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Week 5 Notes
Created Tuesday 09 June 2020
COPYRIGHT
●Automatic (Berne Convention)
● Not infinite, but almost-- (70+life)
Fair Use (is a defense, not a right)
– Purpose/Character (of the new work)
– Nature of copied work
– Amount of copied work
– (NEGATIVE) Effect on “value”
- (the 5th mystery test, — is it "icky?")
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Week 6 Notes
Created Tuesday 16 June 2020
Compulsory Licensing
Orphan Works
Richard Stallman
GNU - Gnu's Not Unix
Linus Torvalds
LINUX - Linux Is Not UniX
Microsoft
EULA (End User License Agreement)
- One person, one computer, one use, that's about it.
(no copying, no taking part, no decompiling etc)
GPL ( General Public License)
- You may make copies for yourself
- You may make copies for others
- You may "take apart"
- You may put back together
- You may sell copies
- You may name it differently
- You MUST make source reasonably available
- You may make a copy, modify it heavily, and keep it (or sell that copy to someone)
- IF you do redistribute, you must do so with all of the above preserved; i.e. you cannot pass restrictions downstream.
The Linksys thing - GPL Violation. WRT54G
OpenWRT
DD-WRT
Tomato
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Week 7 Notes
Created Tuesday 23 June 2020
Invisible Barbecue:
FCC - Telephone
FCC- Radio/Television: Scarcity -> Censorship
3 big things about the internet:
- Packet Switched
- Digitization
- PUBLICLY FUNDED "utility"
Telephones: Circuit Switched Network (Smart)
Internet: Packet Switched Network (Dumb)
(illustration of 1 and 2)
"Here, send this packet to someone closer to the destination than you, also I'm going to send more than I need just in case someone's stupid"
- C D B (1 of 4)
- A E E (2 of 4) etc...
- F A E
- E D F
encrypted? Cafe Dead Beef.... (groan)
xfinitywifi
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Week 8 notes
Created Tuesday 30 June 2020
Privacy - 3 parts
- Secrecy (todays' topic)
- Anonymity (next week)
- A belief in the first two
Encryption
A sends message to B without C eavesdropping (C your way out?)
Cipher - "system"
Key
Ciphertext - "gibberish"
Cleartext - "the message"
Steganography
Encryption- better? It's not "you can't find the message" - it's "yeah, you have a copy but you STILL can't read it. So THERE!"
"The bookstore method" - "One-time pad"
...but what if you CANT meet?
Phil Zimmerman "Pretty Good Privacy" or PGP
Phil went to jail (for a very short time)
...so why was he QUICKLY freed?
It's the other thing you can do with these keys - a weird reverse:
Instead of -
Locking with PUBLIC, unlocking with PRIVATE. (secret messages)
Locked with PRIVATE, unlocked with PUBLIC. (only I could have locked it — and therefore this is authentication)
Hashing
how to store passwords without storing passwords:
Remember — encryption yields "gibberish" --- UNIQUE
Like encryption, except:
- The "gibberish" is short
- You CANT decrypt it (ideally)
MuchB3tterpasswordTAC0S = $KNFWIHIH$F
00000kdf3ouirfnjd
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Week 9 Notes
How did Frederick Douglass figure out he was a slave?
Privacy - 3 parts
- Secrecy (last weeks' topic)
- Anonymity (this week)
- A belief in the first two
Third-party?
Proxy.
(Is that like a VPN?)
Virtual Private Network?
(only as "good" as the third-party)
TOR - The Onion Router